Fw: Suzanne's Daughter writes Dirty Doctor Dean Edell on Fibroarticle (below)

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Ilena, Dr. Edell certainly stirred my daughter up. Doesn't he have that

effect on everyone? Thanks for all you do. Suzanne

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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:39:08 EST

Subject: Is Fibromyalgia A Pain Messenger Problem?

August 06, 2001

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Dr. Dean - I have read your article regarding fibromyalgia and breast

implant disease, where you stated " I'm absolutely sure that breast implant

disease is psychosomatic. " Do you think breast implant disease is

psychosomatic as a whole, or just certain parts of it?? I'm pretty sure

you will not respond to this letter, but It makes me feel like I have

accomplished something just writing it & sending it to you.

Let me tell you a little story... My mother, who is only in her late 40's,

just so happens to have the " poor old fibromyalgia " disease, amongst other

things. I'm sure case is different?? Oh, by the way did I mention that she

HAD breast implants? I'm sure I didn't, would you consider Multiple

Sclerosis a breast implant disease? But just by reading your article,

that's kind of what I got out of it. Forgive me if I was reading too much

into your " diagnosis. "

One thing I do agree with you on, is that the breast implant disease is

" all in the person's head. In my mothers case, it is in her head, also in

her legs, her hands and as a matter of fact in pretty much all of her

body. And by the way, she hates all the attention she gets, when she falls

or if she doesn't feel well. She doesn't want to be sick nor does she like

being sick.

One last thing, the only thing that my Mom doesn't want to believe is that

she's getting worse by the day and there isn't a thing anyone can do about

it.If you read this, My thanks in advance for you taking the time to review

this letter. And if you don't, well then I thank whomever read this for

allowing me to get a few things off my mind.

Sincerely, Elaine Conner, 26 ville, FL

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE BY DIRTY DOCTOR DEAN EDELL:

http://www.healthcentral.com/PrintFormat/PrintFullText.cfm?id=49513

EXCERPT:

" I'm absolutely sure that breast implant disease is psychosomatic. "

Is Fibromyalgia A Pain Messenger Problem?

August 06, 2001

Originally broadcast on March 8, 2001.

Lila: Hi, I've heard you say on many shows that problems like fibromyalgia

and chronic fatigue syndrome are not medical problems. I wondered if you

had considered it as a pain messenger or hormonal problem? This is what

several doctors have told me, including my rheumatologist, who is a

skeptic and conservative.

Dr. Dean: Now let's make sure that we have the right diseases. There are a

bunch of diseases that are similar and people often get them mixed up. But

fibromyalgia is the one I had been most supportive of through the years.

I'm fairly suspicious that chronic fatigue syndrome is really a

psychosomatic illness. I'm sure that multiple-chemical sensitivity is a

psychosomatic illness. I'm absolutely sure that breast implant disease is

psychosomatic. I am close to sure now that Gulf War Syndrome and TMJ are

also psychosomatic. That leaves poor old fibromyalgia out there.

Now fibromyalgia is puzzling. Many people who do not have the disease

cannot know that the only thing that separates fibromyalgia from a

psychosomatic disease is the little tender parts in the back. There's 12

little spots that you push on the patient's back. If they are very tender

in these different spots, or 8 out of 12, then you're considered to have

fibromyalgia.

Well, this diagnosis is pretty vague. A lot of us have tender spots, and

how do you push, and how hard should you push, and what other test can you

use to confirm it? And even so, if a person's very sensitive, that does

indeed imply what you said --that there may be a hypersensitivity of the

pain fibers. But ultimately, we need to have the factual and objective

information to be able to pass on to patients, so we can move forward with

diagnosis and treatment.

You know, it's a very tough category because people get really mad at you

when you don't acknowledge their illness even though it1s in their heads.

Take something like multiple chemical sensitivity. These people get

outraged when you tell them it's all in their heads (and we've proven it

over, and over, and over it's all in their heads) but they still don't

want to believe it. They want to be sick. They almost enjoy being the

center of attention. There's something that is psychological that feeds on

this.

A lot of it has to do with something we're now learning and calling the

" no-cebo " affect. For example, if you have a breast implant, you might

hear stuff like you should have this pain, you should have this fatigue,

you should have this and this and thisS.and before you know it people

start feeling these symptoms.

Multiple chemical sensitivity is an example one of those diseases. We just

kept telling people that if you live in a new house and you have gases

coming out of your carpet, you should get tired and your joints should

ache and your sex life should go into the toilet. And sooner or later,

people started responding.

I think some doctors feed this effect too. They open up clinics for these

diseases, because they1re often misguided. They often want to care and

want to help, but what they wind up doing is almost creating the illness

in patients they treat.

I get calls all the time from people. 3I went to the doctor, I was a

little bit tired, and the doctor said I had chronic fatigue syndrome.2

Well, you can't tell that to people because fatigue is the most common

symptom there is in medicine. There are a thousand diseases that cause

fatigue and you can't label someone until you eliminate all the possible

causes of fatigue.